The British Embassy in Berlin

Botschaft des Vereinigten Königreichs

The British Embassy, opened in 2000, was built on
the site of the palace of railway magnate
Bethel Henry Strousberg, which was used by the British Embassy
from 1884 until
the outbreak of the Second World War.
The new embassy building was designed by
Michael Wilford, a long-time partner of architect James Stirling.

The Embassy is located in Berlin's traditional diplomatic quarter
on the Wilhelmstraße, an important
north-south route through the city centre, not far from
Unter den Linden
and the Brandenburg Gate.
Although not as heavily fortified as its
American counterpart,
the section of road in front of the Embassy is blocked by
retractable pollards
which are meant to ward off road-vehicle orientated suicide bombers.